As it goes with every Marvel movie, Thunderbolts ends twice: first before the end titles, and again after the credits have rolled. Both closers are pretty important for what’s next for the team and their upcoming appearance in Avengers: Doomsday, and director Jake Schreier’s discussed about how the post-credits came about.
After the credits, the film jumps ahead 14 months after the motley crew was publicly unveiled as the New Avengers. They’re put out about Sam Wilson suing them over the Avengers trademark, but that matter falls to the wayside when they learn a rocket’s coming to Earth, and it’s bearing the logo of the Fantastic Four. Schreier told Variety that scene was shot about a month ago (prior to its mid-April premiere), and by Doomsday directors Joe and Anthony Russo in London. The team was already confirmed to be among that film’s cast back in March, and for those keeping track, this post-credits makes the brothers’ first scene they shot since they exited the MCU with Avengers: Endgame.
Schreier may not have directed his former Thunderbolts, but he looked at the scene’s scripts and collborated on it “to make sure it was honest to where our characters were. [We’re] giving them over to this whole new world and new scope, and [we] want them to function in that way.” Being there on set was “very fun to watch your buddies go on to this grander scale…and see them directed in another context and on a different level of scope than we had been treating it.”
Now that they’re in the hands of the Russos, we’ll have to wait until Avengers: Doomsday releases on May 1 to see what the New Avengers get up to when they meet the Fantastic Four, Sam’s Avengers, and the X-Men.
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